CRISPRi engineering E. coli for morphology diversification

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 358-369

  Elhadi, Dina ^a   Lv, Li ^a   Jiang, Xiao Ran ^a   Wu, Hong ^a   Chen, Guo Qiang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CRISPRi; Escherichia coli; ftsZ; Inclusion body; Morphology engineering; mreB; PHB; Polyhydroxyalkanoates; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MORPHOLOGY;

CRISPRI; FTSZ; INCLUSION BODIES; MREB; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

GENE EXPRESSION;

RNA; SGRNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; MREB PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL VOLUME; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT INTERFERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FTSZ GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MREB GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS;

EID: 85027956141     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.09.001     Document Type: Article

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